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Margo Glantz (Margarita Glantz Shapiro) was born on 28 January, 1930 in Mexico City, Mexico, is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic. Discover Margo Glantz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

Popular As Margarita Glantz Shapiro
Occupation Writer, essayist, literary critic, academic
Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 28 January 1930
Birthday 28 January
Birthplace Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality Mexico

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1847

It was there where she presented her thesis on "The French Exoticism in Mexico (From 1847 to 1867)".

On her return to Mexico, she became a teacher in the Department of Theater History in the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature.

1920

Margo Glantz's family immigrated to Mexico from Ukraine in the 1920s.

Her father, Jacobo Glantz, met her mother, Elizabeth (Lucia) Shapiro in Odessa, where they married.

They tried to emigrate to the United States of America, where they had relatives, but were denied entry and had to remain in Mexico.

Although they stayed faithful to Jewish traditions, they soon moved in Mexican artistic circles.

Her father was a friend of Diego Rivera, and had great interest in the new cultural currents of his new adoptive country.

For many reasons, the family (including four daughters) had to move quite often.

As a result, Margo went to several schools.

She spent two years in the Secondary School No. 15, a year in the Israelite School of Mexico, and earned her baccalaureate in the National Preparatory School Number 1, the old school of San Ildefonso, where she was strongly influenced by one of her teachers, Agustín Yáñez.

1930

Margo Glantz Shapiro (born January 28, 1930) is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic.

1947

From 1947 to 1953, Margo Glantz studied English and Spanish Literature, as well as Art history, majoring in Theater History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Here she had many outstanding professors, among them writers and philosophers such as Alfonso Reyes, Julio Torri, Rodolfo Usigli, Samuel Ramos and Leopoldo Zea.

1953

In 1953 she left for Europe, where she earned her doctorate in Hispanic Literature at the Sorbonne.

1959

In 1959 her first daughter, Alina, was born.

1961

After a journey to Cuba in 1961, she started to teach a course in Mexican Literature at the National Preparatory School Number 1, as well as courses in Universal Literature and of Mexican Literature at the Preparatory No. 5. In the same year she started to teach at the University Center of Theatre, at the School of Theater and Fine arts of the UNAM, and at the Center of Classic Theater of the "Casa del Lago" (Lake House).

During these years she published several essays and theater reviews in a variety of cultural magazines and handouts.

1966

In 1966 she became a permanent, full-time Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, specifically in Hispanic Literature and Comparative Literature.

She founded and directed the university magazine Punto de Partida.

1969

She was also the director of the Israel-Mexico Cultural Institute until 1969.

1971

In 1971 her daughter Renata was born.

In the same year she set out for the United States of America, where she taught classes at Montclair State College in New Jersey.

She published Onda y escritura en Mexico (Wave and writing in Mexico), Jovenes de 20 a 33, which gave name to a wave of emerging literature in the 60s, the "Onda" (the Wave).

1974

She returned to Mexico in 1974, where she rejoined the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, teaching courses in Latin American and Mexican Literature.

1978

In 1978 she edited her first fictional book, Las mil y una calorias, novela dietética (A Thousand and One Calories: A Dietetic Novel), which inspired a great number of other books in the field of creation and criticism (see bibliography).

1981

In 1981 she dedicated her autobiographic work, Las genealogias, to her father, who died one year later.

1983

In 1983 she was named Director of Literature at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), where she promoted and directed a number of publications.

A year later she obtained the "Premio Xavier Villaurrutia" (The Xavier Villaurrutia Award) for her work Síndrome de Naufragios.

1986

In 1986 she set out for England, where she worked as a Cultural Associate in the Mexican Embassy in London, until 1988.

That same year she returned to Mexico, and since has led courses at the Faculty of Philosophy and in numerous universities overseas.

1989

In 1989 she was named Member of the National System of Researchers.

1991

In 1991 she obtained the National University Prize and again in 1994 she was given the title of Emeritus Professor, both by UNAM.

Likewise, Princeton University has since awarded her the nomination of Honorary Emeritus Creator of the National System of Creators, as well as the Council of Humanities Fellow.

1995

She has been a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua since 1995.

She is a recipient of the FIL Award.

In 1995 she was elected to be a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Language Academy).

2004

In 2004 she was awarded the "Premio Nacional, campo I, Área de Lingüística y Literatura" (National Prize, field 1, Are of Linguistics and Literature).

That same year she was granted the distinction of Emeritus Investigator of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Investigators).

2005

A year later, in 2005, she was honored with the Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and with her nomination as an Emeritus Honorary Creator of the National System of Creators.

2006

In 2006 a web page was published about her, which was coordinated by Beatriz Aracil Varón, in the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, of Alicante University.